New software selection using Software Center

[Len Ovens]

On Sun, July 15, 2012 10:20 am, óÅÒÇÅÊ äÁ×ÙÄÏ× wrote:
> IMHO recommendations in Software Center is what you're after.

That would force the new user to create an account. My person feeling is
that I already have too many accounts running around on the internet, no
thanks... Also it doesn't seem to be something that is easy to
pre-configure which is what we need to include it in a distro. I am still
not sure it is the best thing for this use.

Anyone else have comments? Maybe I'm missing something.

>
> Refining workflow selection in the installer also could help.

This is in the works. It is something we had with the alt install that has
been lost and so far we have not had the manpower to create a ubiquity
plugin to replace the functionality. However, all that aside, even with
ubiquity being able to allow workflow selection, there will be times when
the user disagrees with our selection of applications for a job. There
will be times when a user decides after install they want another workflow
installed. Ubiquity does not fit these cases well, if at all. My guess, is
that a ubiquity plugin that allows workflow selection (which was planned
for last cycle BTW), is not going to get done this cycle. It is not, to my
knowledge, even being worked on.

We have to work with what we have. I think there is a general agreement
that there needs to be some way of installing/removing SW after the fact.
Nobody has come up with any other way of doing this. I am still looking
for comments. The kind of comments that would be helpful are:

- I don't like this because: <full explanation with examples of badness>
- Here is another way that is just as easy and works better.
- I would like to see <this application> included at the top of <this menu>
- I have a better way and will have it ready next month.
- I like this icon better.
- etc.

I want to make Ubuntu Studio better. I want it to the goto tool for
artistic work.

Anyway, I will start coming up with my own lists of applications for the
top of these menus and put them in if no one has objections. The list of
applications can be changed easy enough after people have done a test
drive.

I feel my experiment with Software Center has been successful and should
be implemented. At worst it is another menu selection no one uses.

-- 
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net